Duty Quotes · Page 69

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

— Gustav Krupp

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.

— Sydney Thompson Dobell

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

— Richardson Wright

“It is my duty as a free man to read so I'm not blind being lead around by my nose”

— Pierce Brown

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

— Edmund Burke

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

— Anonymous

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

— J. Frank Dobie

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

— Henry Edward Manning

I believe that every Christian ought to be joined to some visible church; that is his plain duty, according to the Scriptures.…

— Charles Spurgeon

It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I have a reputation for drinking a lot. Indeed, I drink quite much. However, I give it up when I wish to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They…

— Karen Abbott

We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the…

— Jerry Bridges

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because…

— Simon Wiesenthal

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its…

— Victor Hugo

Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded…

— Emma Goldman

I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to…

— Charlie Munger

Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of…

— James Martineau

[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate…

— Immanuel Kant

The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary…

— C. P. Scott

I know there are people who do not quite agree with the division of India and the partition of the Punjab and…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life…

— Charles Evans Hughes

I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.

— Tammy Duckworth

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as…

— Thomas Francis Meagher

An actor's got a serious duty to perform. God's given him the gift to interpret his creatures. He has to do that…

— Saeed Jaffrey

A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare…

— Lottie Moon

I believe it is my duty to share the gifts I have learned. How dare I have the tools for finding serenity…

— Gabrielle Bernstein

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

— Anonymous

It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted.

— Emmerson Mnangagwa

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

— James Russell Lowell

I joined the Army out of a deep sense of duty, but wanting to be an astronaut feels more like my destiny.

— Anne McClain

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In a democracy, opposition politicians have a duty to hold the Government to account.

— Damian Green

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

— Michael Morpurgo

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

— John Calvin

“Is that what they teach you at the convent? That the gods demand the hearts from our bodies?”

— Robin LaFevers

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

— Mahatma Gandhi